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When he writes to Congreve he speaks of the fathers, and says: "Their's was the giant race before the flood." Farther on he says: "Our builders were with want of genius curst, The second temple was not like the first." Now Dryden may have been, as Macaulay said, an "illustrious renegade," but all his writing shows the influence of the language and the ideas of the King James version.
"There's failing nine or ten, among 'em some I fully counted on Withers, he may come yet; Ferris, hardly time to get word; but Carson, Potter, and Travilla ought to turn up curst soon, or we'll have the sport without 'em!" "Give me a horse, Mr. Barton, and I'll ride down for Gilbert!" cried Joe Fairthorn. "No use, Giles went this morning," growled Barton.
Long life to the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well-known generosity support me against all the strokes of my curst fortune; and long life to the supreme benevolence of His Eminence of Toledo, Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas; and what matter if there be no printing-presses in the world, or if they print more books against me than there are letters in the verses of Mingo Revulgo!
And all the more if he has put his head in the halter for it; if he may be hanged to-morrow for that same purse, so dearly earned, so foolishly departed! Villon stood and curst; he threw the two whites into the street; he shook his fist at heaven; he stamped, and was not horrified to find himself trampling the poor corpse.
This passage is repeated in The Ladies Privilege, at the end of Act I. "Curst" is an epithet applied to shrewish women and vicious beasts. This is the prettiest passage, I think, to be found in Glapthorne. MS. me. "Oh me" is crossed out, and "once" written above. The passage is bracketed in the MS., and was probably meant to be omitted. MS. Its.
"Whatever be thy object: whether revenge or the natural bent of a cruel and degraded mind, I know not; but if any be curst because of the Outlaw of Torn, it will be thou I had almost said, unnatural father; but I do not believe a single drop of thy debased blood flows in the veins of him thou callest son."
It would have been better if you had told me of your robbery at the start." "You're right there, Gilbert! I believe I was an outspoken fellow enough, when I was young, and all the better for it, but the old man's driven me into a curst way of keeping dark about everything, and so I go on heaping up trouble for myself." "Trouble for myself, Alf.
Long life to the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well-known generosity support me against all the strokes of my curst fortune; and long life to the supreme benevolence of His Eminence of Toledo, Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas; and what matter if there be no printing-presses in the world, or if they print more books against me than there are letters in the verses of Mingo Revulgo!
Long or Mr. Short you will be a disgrace to your country, and be curst by your posterity for your pusillanimous surrender of those liberties and just rights that were so gloriously secured to you by your forefathers.
"Most glorious eyes in Christendom," continued my uncle George, "always make me feel so dooced er so curst humble no, humble's not quite the word; what I do mean is " "Fatuous, George?" suggested Uncle Jervas a trifle impatiently. "Unworthy yes, unworthy and er altogether dooced, d'ye see her whole life one of exemplary self-sacrifice and so forth, d'ye see, Jervas " "Exactly, George!
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